Is
Modernisation in Russia Possible? Interview
with Grigory Yavlinsky and Boris Titov by Yury Pronko,
"The Real Time" programme, Radio Finam, May
12, 2010
Andrei Babushkin, member of the Federal Bureau of the Yabloko party and member of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, sent appeals to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Presidential Adviser Valery Fadeyev calling them to revise legislation, in particular, the law on fakes, and to conduct an investigation into the death of Irina Slavina, journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Koza Press.
Today is [the 14th anniversary from] the day of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. I brought flowers from Yabloko to the place of her death. 14 years have passed – only one year is left to investigate. Customers are not announced and not held liable. And murders continue.
Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre initiated the case worth 323 million roubles
Press Release, 7.10.2020
The Moscow Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has filed a case on violation of antimonopoly laws against six companies. The case was opened after an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Policy of the Yabloko party about a cartel on provision of amenities in Moscow. The cartel participants face a fine of 10 – 50 per cent of the initial purchase price and criminal prosecution under Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
On 8 October, the Social Democratic and the Gender actions of the Yabloko party will hold an online discussion “The goals and objectives of the party in the present conditions”. Boris Misnik, Coordinator of the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, Maxim Petlin, Bureau member, Anatoly Golov, Chair of the Social Democratic Faction, and Galina Mikhaleva, Chair of the Gender Faction, and party members will take part in the discussion.
A tense situation has developed in the relationship between the administration and the Council of Deputies in the Zaboryevsky rural settlement (one of the largest settlements, includes 15 settlements near Ryazan) over the past month. The head and new deputies of the Council were elected a year ago. Irina Kopylova, representing the ruling United Russia party, became the head of the administration. Anatoly Kivva, candidate from the Yabloko party, won a mandate in the elections of deputies in the largest district of the settlement.
Statement by the Social Democratic Faction of the Yabloko Party, 5.10.2020
We support the All-Russian campaign of medical workers “Pay for COVID!”, who demand full and timely payment of incentive and insurance premiums to healthcare workers for their labour in the conditions of the coronavirus infection.
Dozenss of thousands of medical and support personnel have been unfairly deprived of these payments, and payments for dozens of thousands medical workers have been significantly and unduly reduced.
On 6 October, a Zoom-lecture by Konstantin Kiselyov will be held at the Yabloko Party University. The topic of the lectures is “A politician in the opposition: how is it possible in Russia at the local level”. The lecture begins at 19:00.
Konstantin Kiselyov has PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma from the Yabloko party of the 6th and 7th convocations
On 16 January, 1969, Jan Palach, a 20-year-old student of the Faculty of Philosophy, set himself on fire in the very center of Prague, in Wenceslas Square. He took this step in protest against the indifference of society, which resigned itself to the end of democratic reforms, known as the Prague Spring, abandoned the struggle for freedom, independence, a new economy and submitted to the political regime established after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops. Letters were found in Palach’s briefcase explaining his act.
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Public Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee initiate a criminal case under the article “incitement to suicide” over the tragic death of Irina Slavina, Editor-in-Chief of Koza Press, who set herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod. Rybakov personally knew Irina Slavina.
On September 30 – October 1, Chairman of the Yabloko Party Nikolai Rybakov visited Oryol and Bryansk, where he delivered lectures for participants in the All-Russian Environmental Lawyer Competition and students studying environmental law at universities in three Russian cities.
Photo: Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction / PLN
Lev Shlosberg, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction and member of Yabloko’s Federal Political Committee, regards the visit of the Pskov Region delegation headed by the Governor to Belarus on 28 September as a manifestation of support to the Lukashenko regime.
The Moscow Region Court removed eight registered candidates from Yabloko, as well as two independent candidates, from early elections to the Council of Deputies of Shatura.
Lawsuits against opposition candidates were sent to court by candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, LDPR, and A Just Russia. It should be noted that candidates from these parties had a common representative in court. The pretext from removing opposition from elections was the allegedly incomplete package of documents submitted by Yabloko, as well as the alleged corrections in the lists of voters’ signatures submitted in favour of independent candidates. At the same time, independent candidates have copies of signature lists certified by the territorial electoral commission, where there are no corrections or amendments, as well as an inventory of the documents adopted, on the basis of which they were initially successfully registered.
Yelena Plotnikova, a member of the Green Russia Faction of the Yabloko party and an expert on environmental safety, submitted documents to participate in the competition for the post of the head of the Yemanzhelinsky urban settlement. The nomination of Yelena Plotnikova to the post of the head of Yemanzhelinsk was supported by the Regional Council of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko.
The Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the lower court’s decision not to consider Yabloko’s claim challenging the decision of the Central Electoral Commission on three-day early voting.
“The Supreme Court confirmed the reluctance of the judiciary to delve into the violations of the Central Electoral Commission of the federal law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights,” says Yabloko lawyer Grigory Makarov.
An on-line lecture by Yuri Korgunyuk, leading researcher of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of department of Political Science of the Informatics for Democracy Foundation (INDEM), was held at the Yabloko Party University on 30 September. The topic of the lecture was “Parties and party systems: trends and development prospects”.
In connection with the formation of new lists of territorial electoral commissions members in the Ivanovo region, the regional branch of the Yabloko party is starting to select members of the commissions with the right of a casting vote.
On 1 October, a search was carried out in the apartment of Alexei Sadomovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Yabloko. Early in the morning the police burst into the apartment, began to beat Sadomovsky on the floor, dislocated his arm, despite the fact that the Deputy Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Yabloko immediately said that he was not resisting. Laptops were confiscated during the search (including those of Sadomovsky’s brother and his girlfriend), three flash drives and a smartphone.
On October 1, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will consider the complaint of Yabloko about the refusal of the Supreme Court to consider the party’s claim against the Central Electoral Commission which had issued a resolution on a three-day voting in elections.
The Regional Council of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko issued a statement on non-recognition of the results of elections of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region, stating that the elections of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region held in the Chelyabinsk Region for three days (in accordance to the recent resolution of the Central Electoral Commission) on September 11, 12 and 13, “were a fake, and their result cannot be recognised as legitimate”.
The sentence to Yuri Dmitriyev means the beginning of the government’s war against the society
Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site, 30.09.2020
Photo: Yuri Dmitriyev. Photo by AFP PHOTO /Scanpix/LETA
The present Russian regime does not always need chemical warfare agents. Old proven tools also work well. If you need to get rid of undesired persons, shut the mouth of truth-seekers, then there are investigative bodies, courts and prisons for this. To be more precise, there are no longer real investigative bodies and courts in Russia. The Investigative Committee, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Public Prosecutor General’s Office, the courts – all these are just tools of the punitive system inherited from the Bolsheviks.
Yuri Dmitriyev, a 64-year-old historian and human rights activist, was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony. Everyone knows very well, including judges and public prosecutors, that his case has been rigged from the beginning to the end. However, one can easily read the personal hatred and revenge to the Russian people of modern Stalinists – high-ranking officials – in the filthy and vile slander against an innocent and honest person. They saw how many people of different professions and views supported and defended Dmitriyev, and, looking with horror at Belarus, proactively declared a hybrid war on society. The decision of the Supreme Court of Karelia [sentencing Dmitriyev to 13 years in prison instead of releasing him] is a deliberate and coordinated blow to the entire Russian society.
